Sunday, July 20, 2025

On this day in music history - Timeless, by Jami Sieber (2013)


Timeless


by Jami Sieber

was released on July 20, 2013.

Track list:

The Invitation; A Love Song for Humanity; River of Sky; Dancing with Tinkerbell; The Burning Dawn; Jewels in Indra’s Web; Following My Father’s Song; Dream Raga; River of Rain; A World Behind the World; Stillness; Begin Again.

On this day in music history - Somewhere New, by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2018)


Somewhere New


by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,

was released on July 20, 2018.

Track list:

Never Forgotten; As the Night Blooms; When Stillness Comes; In Search of Somewhere New; Evening Star; Leaving All Shadows Behind; Five Shades; The Beauty Lies Within; Golden Daybreak; Silence of a Cavern; Deeper Distance; Dolphin Dreams.

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Walt Whitman, on writing:

 

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
- Walt Whitman.

Recommended reading - The Frighteners

 

The Frighteners

by Michael Jahn.

Published by Boulevard Book.
Published 1996.
Movie tie-in.

ISBN-10: 0157297187
ISBN-13: 9780157297188

Description:
When a serial killer reaches out from beyond the grave and, in the guise of the Grim Reaper, embarks on a New England killing spree, it is up to a hapless young man with special powers, aided by some friendly earthbound spirits, to stop him.

Born on this day – Robert Leslie Bellem:

 

Robert Leslie Bellem


Writer

July 19, 1902 – April 1, 1968

Credits:

Written work:

30 Seconds (1937); Back Home to Hell (1940); Beyond the Veil (1936); Bitter Reckoning (1937); Blood for the Vampire Dead (1940); Castle Sinister (1935); Cats of Cassandra (1935); Cavern of the Faceless (1936); Command to Kill (1935); Corpse Without a Face (1935); Curse of the Lovely Torso (1940); Dark Eyes of Hell (1938); Dark Splendor (1936); Dead Legs Walk (1935); Dealer in Death (1938); Death Orchids (1935); Death's Bright Halo (1935); Death's Chrysalis (1936); Death's Detour (1937); Death's Detour: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 1 (2002); Death's Nocturne (1936); Death's Passport (1940); Doom of the Half-Dead (1936); Fangs of the Bat (1935); Fate of the Faulains (1936); Fiend's Feast (1938); Flowers of Desire (1936); Forever Vengeance (1942); From the Sea (1936); Gallows Heritage (1937); Gallows Heritage: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 2 (2003); Ghost Cavalcade (1938); Ghoul's Trap (1937); Girl of Flame (1940); Graveyard Honeymoon (1936); Hell's Dark Fragrance (1936); Heritage of Madness (1937); Homicide Hunch (1943); I Am a Monster (1937); I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Introducing the Author - Robert Leslie Bellem (1941); Kill That Headline (1939); Labyrinth of Monsters (1936); Letter / Amazing Stories, June 1934 (1934); Lorelei of Lynnwold Light (1935); Low Bridge (1941); Master of Death (1935); Mesa of Madness (1941); Message from the Grave (1942); Mirror Magic (1938); Mistress of Serpents (1935); Murder from Nowhere (1935); Murder Mine (1947); Murder's Migrants (1943); Pancho Diego, Villain (1936); Pearl of Hell (1941); Portals of Peril (1939); Portrait of Terror (1936); Princess of Dreams (1938); Program for Plunder (1939); Red Thirst (1939); Reunion Beyond (1936); Robots Can't Lie (1941); Room of Dreams (1938); Shadow from Eleusis (1938); Shadows Pass (1936); She Who Was Dead (1936); Six Lives for One (1940); Sonance Sinister (1940); Strange Journey (1938); Surgeon of Souls (1936); Taupoo Dance (1936); Televised Frame / comic strip (1949); The Belled Rat (1935); The Blood Drinkers (1935); The Corpse Screams Twice (1937); The Crimson Crone (1935); The Dark Tower (1937); The Executioner (1935); The Green Death Walks (1936); The Man Who Was Not (1935); The Moon-God Takes (1936); The Short-Wave Superman (1941); The Soul Eater (1938); The Surgeon of Souls and Other Tales of Terror (2009); The Thing in the Shaft (1939); Through Fire (1940); Tryst with Death (1936); Vampire's Castle (1938); Variant: "I Must Have 5 Corpses" (2015); Variant: Blood for Sale (1942); Variant: Cats of Cassandra (1935); Variant: Death Orchids (1935); Variant: Dog of Death (1942); Variant: Eyes of the Cat (1942); Variant: Fork the in Road (1942); Variant: I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Variant: Miracle Man (1942); Variant: Murder Moon (1942); Variant: Nameless Dread of the Savage Sirens (1949); Variant: Payment in Blood (1942); Variant: The Blood Drinkers (1935); Variant: Will O' the Wisp (1942); Welcome to Hell (1941); When the Dead Awaken (1937); Wooed by a Werewolf (1939); You Are a Murderer (1940).

Movies and television: 

77 Sunset Strip (1963–1964); Adventures of Superman (1956–1958); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Behind Closed Doors (1959); Blackmail (1947); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951 / 1953); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Captain Midnight (1955–1956); Chevron Theatre (1953); Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (1990); Death Valley Days (1965); Dick Tracy (1950–1952); Eye Witness (1953); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); Iron Horse (1967); Johnny Midnight (1960); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Man Without a Gun (1957–1959); Perry Mason (1961–1964); Schlitz Playhouse (1953–1954); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1956); Superman (1973); Temple Houston (1963); The Californians (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The F.B.I. (1965–1967); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Lone Ranger (1956–1957); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Restless Gun (1958); The Texan (1960); The Third Man (1963); The Web (1957); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959).

Born on this day – Vera Schmiterlöw:

 

Vera Schmiterlöw


Actress

July 19, 1904 – September 9, 1987

Credits:
33.333 (1924); Alimente (1930); Am Ruedesheimer Schloss steht eine Linde (1928); Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström (1923); Biprodukten (1969); Bodakungen (1920); Bruder Bernhard (1929); Dame Care (1928); Den italienska halmhatten (1974); Der Fahnenträger von Sedan (1927); Der schwarze Domino (1929); Die Flucht vor der Liebe (1929); Drottningen av Pellagonien (1927); Eine kleine Freundin braucht jeder Mann (1927); En kvinnas morgondag (1931); Ett resande teatersällskap (1972); Håll polisen utanför (1969); Hon, han och Andersson (1926); Hrích (1929); Ihr letztes Liebesabenteuer (1927); Jahrmarkt des Lebens (1928); Madame Bluebeard (1931); Mädchenschicksale (1928); Minns Ni? (1993); Mordbrännerskan (1926); När millionerna rullar... (1924); Sein bester Freund (1929); Seine stärkste Waffe (1928); Släpp fångarne loss - det är vår! (1975); Styrman Karlssons flammor (1925); Thomas Graals myndling (1922); Unga hjärtan (1934); Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1929); Wenn die Mutter und die Tochter... (1928); Wir halten fest und treu zusammen (1929).

Born on this day – Isabel Jewell:

 

Isabel Jewell


Actress

July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972

Credits:
A Tale of Two Cities (1935); Advice to the Forlorn (1933); Babies for Sale (1940); Badman's Territory (1946); Beauty for Sale (1933); Belle Starr's Daughter (1948); Bernardine (1957); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Blessed Event (1932); Bombshell (1933); Bondage (1933); Born to Kill (1947); Career Woman (1936); Ceiling Zero (1936); Ciao Manhattan (1972); Climax! (1957); Counsellor at Law (1933); Dancing Feet (1936); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Day of Reckoning (1933); Design for Living (1933); Dr. Christian (1956); Drum Beat (1954); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Fireside Theatre (1952–1953); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Go West Young Man (1936); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gunsmoke (1965); Here Comes the Groom (1934); High Sierra (1940); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Irene (1940); I've Been Around (1935); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Let's Be Ritzy (1934); Little Men (1940); Lock Up (1961); Lost Horizon (1937); Love on Toast (1937); Mad Love (1935); Man in the Attic (1953); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marked Men (1940); Marked Woman (1937); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Michael O'Halloran (1948); Missing Daughters (1939); Mr. & Mrs. North (1952); Northwest Passage (1940); Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940); catterbrain (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Sensation Hunters (1945); Shadow of Doubt (1935); She Had to Choose (1934); Small Town Girl (1936); Steppin' in Society (1945); Sweet Kill (1972); Swing It, Sailor! (1938); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952); The Aquanauts (1961); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Casino Murder Case (1935); The Crime of the Century (1933); The Crowd Roars (1938); The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1953); The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936); The Leopard Man (1943); The Making of 'Lost Horizon' (1999); The Man Who Lived Twice (1936); The Merry Monahans (1944); The New Cinema (1968); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Snake Pit (1948); The Story of Molly X (1949); The Unexpected (1952); The Untouchables (1962); The Week End Mystery (1931); The Women in His Life (1933); They Asked for It (1939); 36 Hours to Kill (1936); Times Square Lady (1935); Treasury Men in Action (1955); Unfaithfully Yours (1948); Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).